RepublicanJames Comer
U.S. Representative · Kentucky
Kentucky's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Kentucky
2 tracked promises, 2 rated
How they won their seat
James Comer won the 2024 U.S. House election in Kentucky (District 1) with 74.7% of the vote (252,729 votes).
- James Comer · Republican74.7%252,729
- Erin Marshall · Democrat25.3%85,524
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
James Comer's record includes oversight, government reform, and business-related legislation. He has sponsored multiple bills aimed at preventing fraud, such as the 'Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act' and the 'Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act', as well as legislation focused on local business support, exemplified by the 'Save Local Business Act'. Additionally, his role as Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform involves responsibilities related to oversight and government reform. Focus areas (from the record): Oversight · Government Reform · Fraud Prevention · Business Support · Health Workforce Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Comer's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Comer's specific motives or intentions behind his legislative actions; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills he has sponsored or their impact; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess his overall political philosophy or priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. James Comer has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Activity in office
What James Comer has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$30K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$686K66%
- PAC / committee$329K31%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Chair, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Workforce ProtectionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+88 · based on 2 rated promises
- Championed 1
- Fully Kept 1
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2019 · 2 rated promisesThe line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.
| Date | Integrity Score |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 88 |
| Jan 2027 | 88 (current, held from last rating) |
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept2
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
2 promises across 2 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- Agriculture1 promise
- Government Oversight1 promise
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)2100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
2 tracked promises
“Fully legalize industrial hemp at the federal level by removing it from the controlled-substances schedule, sponsoring the House Hemp Farming Act (H.R. 5485).”
“As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, investigate the Biden family's foreign business dealings and whether President Biden was compromised or swayed by foreign payments and influence.”
Verified record
46 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,478,704, spent $1,588,677, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9720: D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8464: Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8463: Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7248: MARINA Act ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 4366: Save Local Business Act ↗Jul 14, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1515: GOOD Act ↗Feb 24, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1276: To remove restrictions from a parcel of land in Paducah, Kentucky. ↗Feb 13, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1295: Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 ↗Feb 13, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 82: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress. ↗Jan 31, 2025
- Sponsored HR 473: SHOW UP Act of 2025 ↗Jan 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 9812: Health Care Workforce Investment Act ↗Sep 25, 2024
- Sponsored HR 9597: Federal Acquisition Security Council Improvement Act of 2024 ↗Sep 16, 2024
Showing the 12 most recent of 46 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 520
- Nay
- 120
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 15
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
3 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- AgricultureStated position
Fully legalize industrial hemp at the federal level by removing it from the controlled-substances schedule, sponsoring the House Hemp Farming Act (H.R. 5485).
SourcesCongress.gov· archivedGovTrackWikipediaView position & sources → - Government OversightStated position
As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, investigate the Biden family's foreign business dealings and whether President Biden was compromised or swayed by foreign payments and influence.
SourcesU.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformWikipediaView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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